Birth & Midwifery in France
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

Connect with many more midwives and birth enthusiasts from around the world by joining IAM, the International Alliance of Midwives!

Some of the following sites may not be in English; an online translator may be useful.

“Birth Is a Human Rights Issue”—Midwifery Today international conference

Midwifery Today’s next international conference will occur in Strasbourg, France, 29 September – 3 October 2010. Learn more about the upcoming conference. View a scrapbook of past conferences.

Midwifery Today Country Contact

Françoise Bardes and Françoise Souverville

Françoise Bardes was born in Paris, France. She was a midwife at La Protection Maternelle et Infantile (PMI) for three years, followed by 14 years at the University of Paris (institute Mutaliste Montsouris). She has gained a new kind of birth experience in the last year by attending homebirths.

Françoise Souverville is a midwife with over thirty years experience. She studied originally with an OBGYN then on her own and through several midwifery correspondence courses. She became a certified childbirth educator with Informed Homebirth back in 1982, now known as A.L.A.C.E. I have returned to my "roots" in southern France near Toulouse and would like to have associations with other midwives. Françoise tells us, "Midwifery is my calling. I am an advocate of waterbirths and have been assisting them since 2000. I have five beautiful, healthy children, all homebirths, in America." Learn more about her here: www.puremidwifery.com

To contact Françoise Bardes, Françoise Souverville or any other Midwifery Today Country Contact, write to the IAM administrator.

Birth/Midwifery

• Conseil National de l'Ordre des Sages-femmes—the French midwifery organization
• www.doulas.info (in French with some pages translated ino English)

Parenting/Breastfeeding

• La Leche League (in English and French)

Education

• www.puremidwifery.com - a correspondance midwifery course that starts an apprenticeship with Françoise Souverville